Wu Zhenri took the train for a whole day and returned to Kapok Town on the fourth day after Xu Qi disappeared. On the way, the police from the police station called him to ask if he had left, and told him to return to Kapok Town and go directly to the police station.
He didn't go directly. After getting off the bus in the city, he went directly to the braised vegetable restaurant he and Bao Furong rented. He called Bao Furong's cell phone many times, but it was turned off.
When he arrived at the stewed vegetable restaurant and saw that the door was closed, he felt more and more strange. He even believed that Xu Qi's disappearance was directly related to her. He expected that as long as he found Bao Furong, he would ask about Xu Qi's whereabouts.
Unexpectedly, Bao Fulong was not at the braised vegetable restaurant. He unlocked the door with the key and opened the door. There was a strong smell of blood inside.
Wu Zhenri thought to himself: Bao Furong bought some fresh pig heads to make braised food. This kind of smell is unavoidable.
He looked towards the back room of the store and didn't find anything strange. He went out and locked the store door. Then he took a bus to Kapok Town and walked straight to the door of the police station. He took out his mobile phone and looked for someone who had called him several times. The policeman's mobile phone number was dialed back and he said he was already here.
A policeman with a mobile phone attached to his ear walked out of the police station, looked at Wu Zhenri and said, is it you?
Seeing Wu Zhenri nodding, the policeman took him into the police room and interrogated him carefully. Only then did he learn that Xu Qi's disappearance might be related to Bao Furong, who sells braised vegetables in the city.
Just when the police decided to ask Wu Zhenri to take them to the braised vegetable store in the city to check it out, the fax machine in the interrogation room beeped.
After the ring, a piece of faxed information was spit out. A young policeman who was taking notes picked it up, glanced at it, smacked his tongue, and handed it to a tall man with a dignified expression sitting at the table and said, "Director Liu, take a look."
Director Liu read the fax carefully, then raised his head and asked Wu Zhenri, "Bao Fulong sells braised pork, right?" This fax talks about a strange thing happening in Yulin Town. Some people reported the case: Someone bought a few kilograms of braised pork from a woman selling braised pork. When a child was stuttering, he suddenly said, why is the mark on this piece of meat not like a pig, but like a human being? The family members were alerted and discovered that the stewed mouth strips and ears looked like human organs and were not from pigs at all...
Wu Zhenri listened to Director Liu with his eyes widened in shock. Director Liu stared at Wu Zhenri and said, does the disappearance of the town teacher Xu Qi, your wife, have anything to do with this? Hard to say. He frowned and continued, "Wu Zhenri, let me ask you, where is the hometown of the little San Bao Furong you raised who sells braised pork?"
It's in Group 13 of Yueya Village, Yulin Town.
Have you ever gone to her hometown to look for her?
I just came back. Where did I find it? I'm about to find it.
When Director Liu heard this, he raised his voice and told several police officers present that the superior public security department had instructed that police stations in various places must assist in the investigation of the "human meat stewed vegetable case" and investigate the stewed vegetable stores and stalls in their jurisdictions. Intelligence must be reported promptly. Our Kapok Police Station must actively cooperate with the investigation and not slack off. According to what Wu Zhenri told us, we are going to link the disappearance of teacher Xu Qi in the town with the "Human Meat Stewed Vegetable Case" for investigation. Maybe there is some connection between them.
At this moment, Director Liu decided to let Wu Zhenri lead the way. He and two policemen, Xiao Wu and Xiao Bi, went to Group 13 of Yueya Village, Yulin Town to investigate Bao Furong's situation.
They drove there in a police car. They wanted to talk to Bao Furong in person, but she was not at home.
Director Liu found out from her parents that Bao Furong was taken to the town by Aunt Liu, the matchmaker in the village, to have a blind date with a young butcher named Wu Haoshuang. He was not sure whether it would work out. She went there yesterday and has not been there yet. go home.
When Wu Zhenri heard this, he felt angry in his heart and cursed secretly: Damn it, I am raising you as a mistress, and you are avoiding me and going back to your hometown for a blind date. good! Okay, since I know this situation, if we meet today, I will have a showdown with you. I don’t want you to run that braised vegetable restaurant anymore. Let’s make a clean break and go our separate ways!
The police car drove to the town and after making inquiries, they found Wu Haoshuang, who was selling meat in front of the butcher stall in the market.
Director Liu told policeman Xiao Wu that you and Wu Haoshuang are from the same family, so it’s up to you to talk to him.
Xiao Wu glanced at the pig head on the stall, pointed at it and started chatting with Wu Haoshuang, Wu Haoshuang, is that pig head good or not?
Wu Haoshuang was surprised. There were three policemen standing in front of him. He had never seen them before. One of them could call out his name. Could something have happened?
He repeatedly thought that he had not broken any laws and had nothing to fear from anyone, so he just told the truth. It was easy to sell in the past few days, but it is not easy to sell in the past few days until now. The reason is that a strange thing happened here. Some people said that they found a woman selling braised pork. Organs such as human tongue, ears, and belly buttons were found in the braised pork. I didn’t see it with my own eyes, and I don’t know if it was true. , or there are rumors that this is bad and affects our business. Usually, pig heads, pig tails and other things are more popular. In the past few days, people who make braised pork dare not ask for them, because people are suspicious of authentic braised pork because it is mixed with human flesh, so it has an impact on our sales of this kind of thing.
Wu Haoshuang said, pointing to the greasy and neglected pig head on the meat stall.
I want to ask you about a person named Bao Fulong. Xiao Wu suddenly changed the subject, stared at Wu Haoshuang and asked, do you know her?
Hard to say. Wu Haoshuang revealed a wry smile and whispered.
You don’t have to say it yet. Director Liu looked at him and introduced himself while making a request to him. We are the police from the Kapok Police Station in the neighboring county. There is one thing we hope you can cooperate with. Could you please stop and let us go aside and ask you something?
Wu Haoshuang said to his fellow butcher next to him, "Please watch for me for a while." Then he immediately walked around the meat stall and walked out of the market with three policemen. Wu Zhenri also followed.
As they approached the police car, the police officer Xiao Bi who was driving pressed the remote control and the door opened automatically. Director Liu asked Wu Haoshuang, who was following him, to get out of the way. They got into the police car one after another, closed the doors and windows, and talked inside, but of course they could not be heard outside.
Director Liu said to Wu Haoshuang, it is said that a matchmaker helped you arrange a marriage and introduced Bao Fulong, the village beauty of Yueya Village in Yulin Town, to you. Is this true?
Yes! I didn't agree, I'm still thinking about it.
Since she is a village beauty and quite beautiful, why don’t you agree?
You don’t know something, that Bao Fulong is pretty and very coquettish. The matchmaker told me that he is already pregnant with a man’s child. The man did not marry her, but married another woman and now he is keeping her as his mistress. , she quit, and then asked the matchmaker to propose marriage to me again. It turns out that I knew her when she was not pregnant and expressed my love to her, but she still refused! Now I didn't refuse completely. I only made one request to the matchmaker, asking her to abort the child in her belly and wait until her body recovers.
Xiao Wu took out his notebook and wrote down the questions asked by Director Liu and the answers given by Wu Haoshuang one by one. After asking Wu Haoshuang to sign, he asked him to get out of the car and go back to the meat stall in the vegetable market.
Director Liu led the police to conduct an investigation in all the hospitals in the local area and surrounding towns, still assisted by Wu Zhenri. They used three days to conduct an investigation in more than 100 hospitals, and finally found the obstetrics and gynecology patients in the inpatient department of a local private hospital. In bed No. 04 of Ward No. 06, I found Bao Fulong, who had just had an abortion a day ago and was lying on an intravenous drip.
Of course the police didn't know her, and Bao Furong used a pseudonym for the abortion at this hospital. When Wu Zhenri came, he recognized him at a glance, no! He saw Bao Furong at a glance and asked her in front of the policeman whether she knew the whereabouts of Xu Qi?
Bao Furong shook her head gently. Wu Zhenri asked again, why did you have an abortion without telling me? Bao Fulong said, it doesn't need to be said, we have this kind of relationship.
Director Liu observed that she looked a little flustered. Thinking of the situation between her and Xu Qi explained by Wu Zhenri, he thought that Xu Qi's disappearance was probably related to her.
At this moment, Director Liu tapped Wu Zhenri on the shoulder, asked him to walk out of the ward with him, came to the corridor, and whispered to him, your task now is to cooperate with us, so stay in this hospital to take care of Bao Furong. For the sake of the name, we will monitor her and report to us if there is any situation. Before she recovers and is discharged from the hospital, she must do her job and let her provide useful clues about Xu Qi's disappearance.
But Wu Zhenri stayed with Bao Fulong in the hospital for a few days, and he couldn't get anything out of her.
During this period, Director Liu and several police officers went to the braised vegetable restaurant owned by Wu Zhenri and Bao Furong and found a razor with blackened blood on it. After technical testing by the public security criminal investigation department, it was confirmed that the blood was not animal blood but human blood. It can be inferred from this that Xu Qi has been murdered, and this razor blade may be the murder weapon.
So as soon as Bao Furong completed the recovery and discharge procedures, she was invited by Director Liu to the Kapok Police Station for interrogation as a suspect.
